May 18 - Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam: Self Portrait
May 18 - Van Gogh's famous 'Tulip Fields'
May 18 - Amsterdam Canal Cruise: Dutch houseboats (notice grass on top of this houseboat)
May 18 - Famous '7 Bridges' in Amsterdam
May 18 - Gardens in front of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
May 20 - Windmills in Kinderdijk: They can adjust the direction of the sails according to the wind direction. Quite the process as they demonstrated. This is a working windmill that what: mills grain.
May 20 - Inside the windmill. This post is the square shaft to mill the grain.
May 21 - Cologne Cathedral in Cologne (Koln), Germany
May 22 - Kaiser Wilhelm Monument in Koblenz, Germany at the confluence of the Rhine and Moselle rivers.
May 22 - The Stolzenfels Castle in Koblenz, Germany. Originally a 13th-century fortress, rebuilt in the 19th century. Viewed from the Rhine river.
May 22 - The Pfalzgrafenstein Castle on the Rhine river. Built in the 14th century.
May 25 - 'The Last Supper' in Bamberg Cathedral, Germany
May 25 - Smoked Beer in Bamberg, Germany. It was delicious (not too smoky either)
May 25 - Smokebeer History
May 26 - 'Beautiful Fountain' in Nuremberg, Germany
May 28 - Glass Museum in Passau, Germany: pictures before and after turning on the UV light.
Uranium glass before the UV light.
Uranium glass with UV light on.
Glass Museum: One of the many (and there are 17,000) of glass pieces on display. Not all were this large.
May 28 - A Cuckoo clock in Passau. Some (like this complex one) are selling for thousands of dollars.
May 28 - St. Stephen's Cathedral in Passau, Germany
June 1 - Tassel Tiebacks used in the hotel for 'Do Not Disturb' (red), 'Clean the room' (yellow) and 'No Need for Cleaning' (blue)
June 1 - The 'Do Not Disturb' tieback tassel.
June 3 - Prague: 'Head of Franz Kafka'. 42 individual rotating panels of stainless steel plates. They move independently turning the head around in 15 minutes. Stands about 36 feet tall.
June 3 - Prague Astronomical Clock attached to the Old Town Town Hall in Prague. Created in 1410. At the top of the hour, the blue doors open and 'The Walk of the Apostles' shows the moving figures and other sculptures including a skeleton.
June 7 - Chaplin's World in Corsier-sur-Vevey, Switzerland, celebrating the museum's 10th anniversary.
Leslie with a couple of 'Charlies' on stilts
June 7 - 429 participants dressed as Charlie Chaplin's 'The Tramp' character. While a large turnout, the event fell short of the 2017 record of 662 lookalikes set at the same location.
June 9 - Matterhorn straddles the border between Switzerland and Italy, accessed through the town of Zermatt. Elevation is 14,692 feet.
June 12 - The Kapellbrucke (Chapel Bridge) in Lucerne, Switzerland, known as the oldest covered wooden bridge in Europe.
